Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party

The Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party, also known as the Can Lao Party, was a Christian democratic political party that existed in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963. The party was led by party leader Ngo Dinh Diem and General Secretary Ngo Dinh Nhu, his younger brother, and the party supported Third Position views. Can Lao was founded by the tens-of-thousands-strong Vietnamese Confederation of Christian Workers and several intellectuals, and the party supported workers' and farmers' cooperatives, unionization rights for industrial workers in Saigon, the co-management of national industry by laborers and capitalists, the rejection of "materialistic" liberalism and communism, and traditionalism. The party was based on mass organizations and secret networks, and it helped Ngo Dinh Diem to control all political activities in South Vietnam. The Can Lao Party was banned and dissolved after the November 1963 coup against the Ngo Dinh brothers, who were both assassinated.